Utilities Board Ends First Year With Notable Reforms
The Public Service Commission marks its first year with sweeping actions. It halted watered stock, reformed accounting, planned three subway routes, expanded subway and elevated service, tightened car repairs, and prepared an asset appraisal to regulate fares and transfers. Chairman Willcox reports progress and a shift toward safer, more efficient transit across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
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Public Service Commission
Gov. Hughes
the Times
Commission
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn Road
Brooklyn Loop
Metropolitan Street Railroad
Trne
Coney Island
New York City
Brooklyn Bridge
Theos
William R. Willcox
Interborough-Metropolitan
Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company
Electric Light and Power
Fourth Avenue
Broadway
Lexington Avenue
Canal Street
Board of Estimate
Staten Island
Hudson River
Hundreds Visit Cleveland Grave as Mourning Deepens
Hundreds visit ex President Cleveland's grave in Princeton Cemetery as Mrs. Cleveland and children plan possible summer stay in Tamworth New Hampshire. Guards watch the site at the demand of Mrs. Cleveland while friends and dignitaries send flowers and messages of sympathy from across the nation.
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New York Times
Princeton
N. J
Cleveland
Charles “van’ Marter
Princeton University
St. Peter
Board of
van Marter
Mr. van Marter
Mr. Cleveland
Princetonians
Constitutional Congress of
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Webb Hayes
President Hayes
Tremont
Ohio
Spiegel Grove
Roosevelt
John G. Carlisle
George B. Cortelyou
Baron de Rio Branco
George B. McClellan
Joseph Jefferson
Board of Trustees
Joseph .D. Bryant
Bryant
F. S. Hastings
Daniel 8. Lamont
John Grier-Hibben
Paul van Dyke
August Belmont
Fort of
New Jersey
Charles F. Hastings
Richard. Harding Davis
John H. Finley
E. Cornelius Benedict
Thomas ‘Hastings
A. L., Frothingham
Colgate
R. H. Townsend
Archibald D. Russell
Truesdale
Garrett
John G. Milburn
Alexander Phillips
Moses Taylor Pyne
Randolph West
John Garrett
M. W. Bartlett
H. A. Garfield
George A. Armour
Junius
New_York
Sons of St. Patrick
Sigma Chi Fraternity
New York
New Snake Arrives at Bronx Park Zoo
A ten foot boa constrictor named Nannette arrived yesterday from the West Indies and will stay at the Bronx Park Zoo through summer and likely winter. She will receive visitors this afternoon in the reptile house at the Bronx Zoo.
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West Indies
Bronx Park Zoo
Nannette
Bronx Zoo
Train Wreck near Garrettsville Blamed on Wreckers
Cleveland officials report derailment of a fast Pittsburg to Cleveland train last night was caused by train wreckers. Spikes pulled and a rail loosened. tools found nearby. Engineer killed. about six injured. Detectives assigned. reward offered. Two prior attempts had occurred nearby.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Brie
Garrettsville
Pittsburg
Guarrettsville
Spikes derail train in Hazleton killing engineer
A Pennsylvania passenger train was derailed by spikes placed on the tracks near Lofty twelve miles from Hazleton. Engineer Aaron Raub of Pottsville died. Eight to ten passengers were injured and taken to the State Hospital. The Lehigh Valley Railway notes two spikes positioned to deliberately wreck the train.
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Hazleton
Penn
Lofty
Pennsylvania
Aaron Raub
Pottsville
Lehigh Valley
Delano Junction
Central passenger line cuts fare voluntarily
New York Central General Passenger Agent F Daly said the fare drop between 155th Street and University Heights was voluntary. He noted the 1 cent fare matched other short Putnam Division routes and reduces annual revenue by under $50. Daly added no commission order was needed to fix the inequality.
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New York Central
155Th Street
University Heights
Manhattan
Bronx
Coney Island
Cc. F. Daly
Public Service Commission
Mr. Daly
Commission
Weather: balloon ascent records cool 41 at altitude
A captive balloon at Mount Weather Virginia reached 6500 feet showing a rapid temperature drop from 76 at the surface to 41 at the top. Nationwide, weather was generally fair, with cooler conditions in the Northwest and light to moderate winds along the coasts. Forecast calls for fair conditions across New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New England through Monday with light to fresh south winds in places.
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Washington
Mount Weather
New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Business Men to Be Columbia Lecturers in Engineering
Leading manufacturing men will lecture at Columbia next fall under a new program designed to connect the university with practical industry. Dean Goeze and Prof Locke plan a series of courses by top engineers to teach how to achieve results with economy, with accounts and shop costs explained by experts.
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Columbia
Frederick A. Goeze
Charles E. Locke
Mechanical Engineering
Charles B. Going
Engineering Magazine
Nonce University
James M. Dodge
Link Belt Engineering Company
Philadelphia
Charles A. Carpenter
Herring-Hall- Marvin Company
Mr. Going
James Newton Gunne
Richard T. Lingley
Harrington Emerson
E. R. L. Seligman
H. R. Seager
Economic Department
University
William P. White
Frederick W. O'Neil
Nuedberg Engineering Company
Frederick Ophuis
de la Vergne Company
Dean Geeze
Geeze
H. G. Wells
Mr. Geeze
Wells
Michigan
Felt Entitled to Pass Special in The New York Times
Albany June 27 The Chairman and members of a town Board of Assessors seek guidance on whether they are entitled to railroad free passes citing prior practice before a 1908 Public Service law. The Public Service Commissioners respond that they are not entitled, warn of misdemeanor and possible removal. The letter highlights tension between municipal officials and railroads over travel perks.
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New York Times
Albany
Public Service Commissioners
Second District
Tthe
Railroad Company
Bloomingdales
Bloomingdale
Hospitals Advise More Sites For City Care
The State Charities Aid Association committee on hospitals chaired by Theo dore L. Frothingham calls for emergency relief stations to be set up at convenient distances from existing hospitals, with a plan to reach fourteen by 1920 and 3,312 new beds citywide. It urges two general hospitals on Blackwell’s Island and enlarging Bellevue to 1,600 beds, while prioritizing park space on the island.
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State Charities Aid Association
Theodore L. Frothingham
Frothingham and Associates
Bellevue Hospital
Manhattan
Bronx
Bellevue
Twenty-sixth Street
East River
Blackwell's Island
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White Enamel Refrigerator Company
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United States Weather Bureau
England
Germany
West
Philipsborn
Oute Garment Shop
Wes
Batiste
Panama
Voile
Assessor
Stevens
State Charities Aid Committee
Blackwell’s Island
Hopes Lexington
S*aves
Copenhagen
Bloomingdales’ Lex
3D Av
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